Epixerus ebii (Temminck 1853)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 754-818 : 791

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7316535

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11332314

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scientific name

Epixerus ebii (Temminck 1853)
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Epixerus ebii (Temminck 1853) View in CoL

[Sciurus] ebii Temminck 1853 , Esquisses Zool. sur la Cote de Guine: 129.

Type Locality: Ghana. "...les grandes forêts de la Guiné, et se trouve dans les mêmes localités que l'espèce précédente, [...les confins du pays des Fantes...] mais parait être moins abondante dans les parties boisées de Dabocrom." .

Vernacular Names: Western Palm Squirrel.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Epixerus ebii subsp. ebii Temminck 1853

Subspecies Epixerus ebii subsp. jonesi Hayman 1954

Subspecies Epixerus ebii subsp. wilsoni Du Chaillu 1860

Distribution: Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix III ( Ghana); IUCN – Lower Risk (nt) as E. ebii and as E. wilsoni .

Discussion: E. ebii and E. wilsoni were formerly considered distinct species by Perret and Aellen (1956), Verheyen (1959), and Rosevear (1969), but Kuhn (1964) revised the genus and concluded that they are conspecific.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Rodentia

Family

Sciuridae

Genus

Epixerus

Loc

Epixerus ebii (Temminck 1853)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
Loc

[Sciurus] ebii

Temminck 1853: 129
1853
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